What is love?<\/p>\n
Not an easy question to answer. But it does get asked often. I asked this question on my Facebook page<\/a> and got a bunch of really interesting responses. Worth checking out.<\/p>\n In response I decided to list down a bunch of random quotes related to love.<\/p>\n I want to start with this:<\/p>\n Love is like Some people think that is silly, but I like it nevertheless.<\/p>\n But I did find one definition that is concise, but seems to capture a lot of the most important characteristics of love:<\/p>\n Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This definition rather works for me. Not perfect, but covers a lot of cases, when you really think about it.<\/p>\n I’m not talking about the infatuation that people feel when the first fall in love. Here one of my Facebook status update from a few months ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n People talk of “falling in love” as if it is a disease they catch. That’s not love, that’s infatuation. And that’s temporary – goes away in an year or two. If love could be described as a “falling in”, how can you promise to love someone forever, if the act did not involve any judgment or a decision on your part? Love is something you have to choose to do intentionally, and commit to doing against all adversities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While you’re on this topic, this brainpickings article on why friendship is a greater gift than romantic love<\/a> is a must read.<\/p>\n and related: <\/p>\n Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Anyway, I’ll close out this random post with a bunch of random quotes\/poems related to love:<\/p>\n I cannot bear to put away the bamboo sleeping mat. We accept the love we think we deserve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u2015 Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/p>\n I do not crave nirvana. Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -e.e. cummings<\/p>\n Ghalib points out that it’s not all happiness and roses in love:<\/p>\n Phir hue hain gawaah-e-ishq talab translation:<\/p>\n Again the witnesses of love have been summoned Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “Love is blind” …. “Not true. Otherwise lingerie wouldn’t be so popular” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A dad talking about ‘Dad Jokes’: “I think at some level my kids know that each time they groan or say ‘oh dad!’ to my admittedly pathetic dad jokes, they’re really saying ‘I love you too'”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n invisible joy Adapted from here<\/a><\/p>\n She who responds to “What do you want for your birthday” with “If you really loved me, you would know what I want” is going to get a Playstation 3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Stolen from here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is love? Not an easy question to answer. But it does get asked often. I asked this question on my Facebook page and got a bunch of really interesting responses. Worth checking out. In response I decided to list down a bunch of random quotes related to love. I want to start with this: … Continue reading Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23,15,124,6,115],"tags":[173,171,51,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nI love you Absolut<\/p>\n\n